On 4/18/07, Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2007b@ryandesign.com> wrote:
> On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:57, Andreas Hasenack wrote:
>
> > As I'm aproaching 200k revisions in a repository, I was wondering. In
> > FSFS, each commit is one file. What's the biggest number of revisions
> > people have with FSFS out there?
> >
> > I'm currently using 1.4.3, with ext3 FS + dir_index option.
>
> The repository at apache.org is currently over 530k revisions...
>
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/>
> You could ask them if they're experiencing any problems with that.

Assuming they're using FSFS - the repository is over 4 years old, at
which point the default was BDB (they could have converted at some
point, of course).

I seem to recall hearing that the limit (for FSFS) was dictated by the
host filesystem's number of files per directory.